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Grammar : Noun
Spell : hoo d
Phonetic Transcription : hʊd

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Origin :
  • "covering," Old English hod "hood," from Proto-Germanic *hodaz (cf. Old Saxon, Old Frisian hod "hood," Middle Dutch hoet, Dutch hoed "hat," Old High German huot "helmet, hat," German Hut "hat," Old Frisian hode "guard, protection"), from PIE *kadh- "cover" (see hat).
  • Modern spelling is early 1400s to indicate a "long" vowel, which is no longer pronounced as such. Meaning "removable cover for an automobile engine" attested by 1905. Little Red Riding Hood (1729) translates Charles Perrault's Petit Chaperon Rouge ("Contes du Temps Passé" 1697).
  • noun gangster
  • noun covering worn over the head
  • noun a covering for vehicles and the like
Example sentences :
  • Or that at least a quarter of the drivers were out peering under their hoods.
  • Extract from : « The Aggravation of Elmer » by Robert Andrew Arthur
  • "On with your hoods," he cried briskly, his good humour re-established.
  • Extract from : « In Kings' Byways » by Stanley J. Weyman
  • Our breath was frozen to our hoods of fur and our cheeks and noses frozen.
  • Extract from : « A Negro Explorer at the North Pole » by Matthew A. Henson
  • There were the heaps of folded cloaks, and shawls, and the hoods.
  • Extract from : « The Blunders of a Bashful Man » by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
  • They were like the Nithesdale hoods of Hogarth's prints, but smaller.
  • Extract from : « Customs and Fashions in Old New England » by Alice Morse Earle
  • Luckily they have good piloni (thick cloth cloaks with hoods).
  • Extract from : « Columba » by Prosper Merimee
  • They threw back their hoods and sang America with deep solemnity and feeling.
  • Extract from : « Doctor Jones' Picnic » by S. E. Chapman
  • Hoods are symbols of university degrees attained by the wearer.
  • Extract from : « The Worship of the Church » by Jacob A. Regester
  • But, first of all, be good enough to remove your hoods, that I may see your faces.
  • Extract from : « The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer » by Harry Collingwood
  • The first time this happened I was going to shoot with my neighbors, the Hoods.
  • Extract from : « Scally » by Ian Hay
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